When instructors upload course content to Udemy, they give Udemy a permanent, worldwide, royalty-free right to use, copy, modify, and sublicense that content to third parties indefinitely.
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Instructors who create and upload courses to Udemy may find their content continues to be used and distributed by Udemy and its enterprise partners even after they leave the platform, without additional compensation.
For instructors, this means Udemy can license their course videos and materials to enterprise clients and other third parties indefinitely and royalty-free, significantly limiting instructors' control over their own intellectual property after uploading.
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"By submitting or posting content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display, and distribute your content in any and all media or distribution methods (now known or later developed). You agree that this license includes the right for Udemy to provide, promote, and improve the Services and to make content submitted to or through the Services available to other companies, organizations, or individuals for the syndication, broadcast, distribution, repost, promotion, or publication of such content on other media and services.— Excerpt from Udemy's Udemy Terms of Use
(1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: This provision implicates copyright law under 17 U.S.C. §101 et seq. (U.S. Copyright Act) and equivalent laws in EU member states under Directive 2001/29/EC (InfoSoc Directive) and the EU Digital Single Market Directive 2019/790. The license grant must be assessed for compliance with moral rights protections under French droit moral and similar protections in EU jurisdictions where such rights are inalienable. The FTC Act Section 5 may apply if the scope of the license is not adequately disclosed to instructors at the point of upload. (2)
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Instructors who create and upload courses to Udemy may find their content continues to be used and distributed by Udemy and its enterprise partners even after they leave the platform, without additional compensation.
For instructors, this means Udemy can license their course videos and materials to enterprise clients and other third parties indefinitely and royalty-free, significantly limiting instructors' control over their own intellectual property after uploading.
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